Carnarvon Tracking Station

The Carnarvon Tracking Station was an Earth tracking station in Australia, located 10 kilometres south of Carnarvon, Western Australia. It operated from 1963 until 1975, during which it supported the Gemini, Apollo and Skylab space programs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carnarvon.

Carnarvon

Photo: Nachoman-au, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carnarvon is a town in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, with a population in 2016 of 4426. Once a port for the shipping of livestock, it's now a fruit & veg growing area and has a small fishing industry.

Carnarvon Tracking Station

Type: Ruins
Description: former earth tracking station in Western Australia
Categories: ground station and historic site
Location: Shire of Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-24.9023° or 24° 54′ 8″ south

Longitude

113.71967° or 113° 43′ 11″ east

Open location code

5P7M3PX9+3V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 627440957

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

Wikidata ID

Q5043794

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